ASKA is the slowly growing collection of photographs from abandoned, quaint or interesting locations by me, Björn Sahlberg. The home base is Stockholm, Sweden.
So, why seek these places and spend days photographing them? A very early inspiration was the book Journal of a Ghost Hunter by Simon Marsden (RIP) that I received for Christmas in 1994. Up until then my view on photography in general was something of a substitute for artforms like painting or sculpting but that book had me thinking differently. Then there was also the environments of fantasy literature, comic books, Warhammer games and movies like Bladerunner which all had a strong appeal to me. Still it took a few years before I picked up my dad's old Minolta to use it on my very first explore on, The Mighty Abandoned Cottage of Stäksön in Kallhäll outside of Stockholm. The rest is history.